Families/Friends of Compulsive Hoarders

The parents, children, spouses, partners, friends or other relatives or significant others of people with a compulsion to acquire possessions which clutter the living space, whose own patterns of personal, social and familial coping have been significantly affected by concern about the individual and his or her compulsions. When these behaviors are combined with severe self-neglect and hostility to the outside world, Diogenes syndrome (also known as senile squalor syndrome) may be the proper diagnosis.